I got a P1S as a Christmas present for me and my wife. For now, my plan is to block its internet connection and stop using the Bambu app altogether. When/if it his stops working for me, what does the community recommend as a replacement for newbies like me, or future newbs who haven’t made this mistake?
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I have a Qidi X-Plus 4. There are a lot of reviews online raving about its reliability, how it’s the first production-ready printer that’s also affordable for hobbyists. It’s also got Klipper firmware, which is open, so it can’t be locked down the way the Bambu ones are.
My old printer is a 10 year old prusa clone kit, which I wrestled with the whole time I had it. Compared to that, the Qidi is a dream.
If you’re on 110v power, make sure you get the fixed relay board. The original one can’t handle the higher amperage of the lower voltage power.
There are a lot of reviews online raving about its reliability,
The way you set up this sentence, I was expecting a huge BUT at the end
Get a Prusa. I too made the error buing chinese crap (Ender 3 v2 in my case). I didn’t have the cloud problem but i had to tinker soo much till it actually worked.
You pay more for a Prusa, but then you actually have tested and open hard- and software that works and can’t be taken away from you.
You could extract the private keys from your printer
https://wiki.rossmanngroup.com/wiki/Reverse_Engineering_Bambu_Connect
For completeness it’s worth mentioning that they posted a response to a lot of the more extreme allegations
https://blog.bambulab.com/updates-and-third-party-integration-with-bambu-connect/
None of which are all that reassuring.
Q: Do you plan to do this bad thing?
A: Definitely not…Yet
Yeah the fact that it’s definitely even come up as a discussion topic isn’t reassuring. Just wanted to add it to the discussion.
Now that this is shipping, I’m hoping it gets more exposure and reviews online:
I want a Core One, but am holding out for the kit version, which I haven’t seen anything announcing a release date. I can’t really blame them, I’m guessing 75% or more of their printers are sold prebuilt, but I enjoy getting my hands dirty and knowing exactly how my printers work.
